Improvement in elevators



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. FRANCIS STEIN AND HENRY IIAERING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

' Letters Patent No. 98,203, dated 'December V21, 1869.

IMPRQVEMENT INELBVATORS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANors STEIN and Hanny HAERING, ofthe city, county, and State of NewA York,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in' Ele vators; and we do hereby declare that the' following is a full,.clear,and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in elevators or hoisting-apparatus for hotels and warehouses, either inside or outside, and also applicable for use as {ire-es-l capes.

It consists in the application, to a pair oi' vertical posts or ways with toothed racks, ot a carriage or platform, having a lshaft provided with a gear-wheel at or near eachend, and gearinginto the toothed rack; also, having in suitable cases, sliding yon the posts, a set of hoisting-gears gearing with the toothed racks, and operated by handcranks, and provided with ratchet-wheels holding-parvis, and friction-apparatus, arranged in a peculiar way, for elevating the platform,

holding it in, any desired position for governing its de-L scent, all as hereinafter specified.

- Figure 1 is a front elevation of our improved hoisting-apparatus Figure 2,is a section through one of 'the sets of hoisting-apparatus, taken on the line a: :o `of iig. l; and

Figure 3 is a section throughthe same, on the line G is the crank-shaft, with pinion H, gearing with` the intermediate wheel I, which gears `with the large wheel K, on the shaft of which is a pinion, L, gearing with the rack B of the post.

This large wheel K has a ratchet-disk, M, anda smooth friction-disk, N, attached. to or made in connection with it, as shown in iig. 2,.

O is a holding-pawl, pivoted to the case, and work,- ing with the ratchet-disk M. The rear end is curved upward, to-be acted on by a stud-pin, P, on the line when the latter is moved, to cause the friction-strap It to bear on the disk N, to throw it out of action with the saidratchet-disk.

This lever Q is pivoted to astud, S,'projecting-om the case, and rises up through thetop of the lat- `ter, terminating in a handle, and has a pawl, T,

working into a notched bar, U, to hold the frictionstrap on the wheel or disk N. `-The said strap is con,- nected by one end tothe case at V, and by the other lto the lower end of the lever Q, so that -when the" upper end of the hand-lever Q is drawn away from the post, the strap will be forced down upon the disk N.- At the same time the vpawl 0 will be lifted out of connection with the ratchet-wheel M.

The persons standing on the platform, and turning the cranks W, may work it up or down, as required, carrying freight ,or other matters.

The arrangement here shown, ofthe working-gears and holding-devices, diiiers from that in the patent, No. 93,019, for adjustable scaffolds, by the introduction ot' the intermediate,v gear-wheel I between the pinion'and the large wheel K; also, in theconnection'of' the friction-strap R to the end of the lever Q, having its fulcrum above the end, and also in the arrangement of the holding-pawls.

The object of the wheel I is to so arrange the direction of the movements, that when the posts Aare* connected to brackets projecting from the side of a wall, as here shown, the operators may stand facing the wall, in turning the cranks, pushing from them in the upper S weep,.and pulling toward them in the lower sweep, which is the most preferable action.

. The cases F, or frames, are so connected to the posts as to pass the brackets or arms X, projecting from the wall to support the posts.

We propose to arrange, in the top ofthe hand-lever Q, a trip-rod, Z, in connection with the end of the pawl T, to throw it out of connection with the ratchetbar U.

Having thus describedour invention,

We claim as new, and desire to secure by Lettersk Patentl. The combination of the posts A, toothed racks and operating-gears H I K, and hand-cranks, all substantially as specified.

2. The arrangement, with the wheel Kand disks N M, of the lever Q, friction-strap It, pawl 0, stud-pin,Y

P, pawl T, and ratchet U, substantially as specified.

3. The arrangement, with the posts A and brackets X, of the cases or frames F, for sliding past the said brackets, substantially as specified.

The abovespeciication of our invention signed by us, this 1st day of November, '1869.

FRANCIS STEIN. HENRY HAERING.-

Witnesses:

Gnd-W. MABEE, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.'

B, platform O, shaft D, pinions E, cases or frames F, 

